Chapter 167 - Li Ling, Is This Part Of Your Plan Or Not?

The white-suited individual who had a gun pointed at them was looking for anything but peace.

After an awkward minute of staring, they finally heard the man speaking up, but he wasn't exactly saying anything to them, he was ordering someone, "Get them." 

He put his gun down and Zhihao thought they were safe, however, before he could sigh in relief, from the corner of his eye, he saw more white-suited men arrive and they all rushed up to restrain Zhihao and Li Ling from running away. 

"Did we just get caught once again?" Zhihao whispered. 

Li Ling chuckled in response, "Yes. Yes, we did." 

"Any plan this time?" 

"There is always one." 

Zhihao nodded and for some reason, he couldn't feel any panic even though he was being arrested all over again.. 

Like some philosophical soul had once said: the first may come as a surprise, the second might leave you speechless for a second, but by the third time, you would definitely get used to it. 

It wasn't even the third time he was getting arrested, but he could still feel that he had gotten used to it. 

Poor Zhihao couldn't even remember that these philosophical lines were said by a rotten author who wrote BL... And the lines were definitely not meant to be used in such a context. 

Zhihao looked at the white-suited man and asked, "Where are you taking us?" 

As expected, the man ignored him like a professional, as if he were nothing more than a spec of dust in the air. 

The guards who had captured them, pulled them along to who knows where. 

In all reality, Zhihao was sure that if he and Li Ling were to fight against these people, they would surely succeed, however, Zhihao had no plans in retaliating, at least, not at this moment. He wanted to wait and watch to see what happens next, he wanted to know what Li Ling was planning. 

He hoped that this was a part of Li Ling's unspoken plan. 

Zhihao made sure that nobody could hear him as he asked in a whisper, "Gege, this is a part of your plan... Right?" 

Li Ling chuckled as he heard this and had the urge to pat Zhihao's head to reassure him, but his hands were sadly restrained by the guards. 

The guards took them back to the main lobby of the building and just when Zhihao thought that these people worked for Rei, he was shocked to see that in front of them, even Rei had been captured by some white-suited guards. 

Rei saw the two captains being escorted over and gritted her teeth, "You! This is your plan, isn't it?! You tricked me!!" 

Zhihao wanted to correct the girl and tell her that he was thoroughly innocent, however, before he could actually do that, he stopped himself and gulped the words back down when he saw the 'leader' of the white-suited guards. 

"We have brought them over," The white-suited guard who had ordered to capture Zhihao and Li Ling and dragged them over here spoke up with no emotions laced along with his words. 

The so-called leader was none other than a familiar girl they had met before.

It was Leyah!! 

Zhihao was thoroughly shocked as he saw Leyah looking back at them with a bright smile on her face, "Well well, we meet again. The ones who ran away without paying me for my services."

Zhihao gulped as he spoke up in a rather guilty tone, "If this is about your pay... We can discuss it calmly. No need to get so aggressive. We might be willing to pay you more than what we had discussed." 

Li Ling snickered as he heard this. Mastermo was truly... Unpredictable. 

Leyah smiled as she raised two fingers and gestured for the guards to let go of them, "You don't need to pay me anymore. The world's already ending. What will I do with those measly survival points?" 

Zhihao couldn't say anything against that since he also agreed one hundred percent with it. The world was already ending so there was certainly gonna be no use in stacking up survival points. 

Zhihao's eyebrows furrowed as he questioned, "Who are you really?" 

Leyah smiled thinly as she looked back at Zhihao and answered, "Captain Burn and Captain Liv, nice to meet you. My name is Leyah and I'm the leader of the current rebellion." 

Zhihao scoffed, "So being a travel guide and all was just a cover? Did you approach us because you knew our identity?" 

Leyah chuckled as she heard this, "You're not that important to me. I'll agree, being a travel guide was a cover, but I didn't approach you because I knew who you were. It was completely coincidental. But I have to say, when you asked to be taken here, I kinda guessed your identities." 

"..." 

"We don't have a conflict between us, Captain Burn. I don't enjoy fighting, so isn't it better for both of us to mind our own business?" 

Before Zhihao could say anything as a response to that, Rei suddenly spoke up with a disgusted tone. 

"Talking as if you're doing something grand. Pei! You're nothing more than a degenerate thief!" 

Leyah chuckled as she walked over to her and in the next minute, she pulled Rei's head up by clutching a lock of her hair, "Who the hell do you think you're calling a thief...?!" 

Rei gritted her teeth as she wickedly smiled in turn, "You think you can scare me? Overthrow me?! Dream on! Without me, Utopia is nothing more than a doomed wasteland!!" 

Leyah chuckled as she raised her right hand and slapped Rei, "Great! You think I care about your stupid Utopia?! Hahaha..." She laughed wickedly reminding Zhihao of the villain from a children's movie he had once watched, "To hell with you and your Utopia!! You want to put on the mask of an angel and show people false hope before sending them to their deaths!! I would never be as fake as you!" 

Rei's eyes widened as she struggled to get out of the guard's hold but pitifully failed to, "You!! You're crazy!! At least I give them hope! You just want to kick them out on a battlefield to fend for themselves!" 

Zhihao had no idea what half of this conversation was about so he simply listened silently as a bystander. At this exact moment, he felt someone pulling his wrist and when he glanced back, it was Li Ling who was gesturing him to get out of here. 

Zhihao furrowed his eyebrows as he asked, "Why?" 

There was a really good catfight going on so of course, he would not want to leave the place. 

Li Ling pursed his lips as he tugged at Zhihao's sleeve once again and gestured down towards his hand.

"Huh?" 

Zhihao looked down at the small metallic ball that was clutched in Li Ling's hand and his eyes widened as panic rose up. 

It was the Imbis! The Imbis was an explosive that could be controlled by a player, it was a transferrable in-game item that a lot of people wanted to get their hands on. No matter if you wanted a big explosion or a really small one, the explosion caused by Imbis could be controlled according to your needs. 

Zhihao looked up at Li Ling in a questioning manner but Li Ling only smiled as he pulled Zhihao along and made a run for it. 

The guards had already let go of them on the orders of Leyah so even if they ran away, the guards weren't going to catch them. 

Rei, however, noticed them sneaking away and yelled out, "They're running away!!"

"Who cares about them?!" Leyah shouted back. 

The two glared at each other with hostility that seemed to perfectly match, focusing completely on each other and not knowing that Li Ling was planning on blowing something up. 

Zhihao sounded a bit worried as he asked, "What are you doing?" 

Li Ling threw the Imbis towards Zhihao and responded, "A-Zhi equip your suit. Fast!" 

Zhihao nodded as he reacted immediately and followed Li Ling's instructions. 

At this moment, the earth began to shake uncontrollably once again and Li Ling grabbed onto Zhihao's suit firmly as he spoke up, "Quick! Go over there." He pointed ahead at the place where the two capsules were located. 

It was hard to move with the ground being so unstable, however, Zhihao still managed to walk with much difficulty. In the case of an earthquake such as this one, moving with the suit on was much easier than moving without one.

Li Ling climbed on Zhihao's shoulder before he ordered, "Throw it!" 

Zhihao threw it and the Imbis rolled over for a few seconds before it came to a stop right under the capsules containing the naked body of fake Captain Burn and Captain Liv. 

Li Ling didn't even waste a second before detonating it and controlling the explosion in a manner that would only affect the capsules and the suit sitting in front of the two capsules. 

The explosion surely got the attention of the fighting cats who looked over in disbelief and shock. 

"Did you really just..." Leyah didn't even dare complete the question.

Rei, "..."